Learner Course Recommendation in e-Learning Based on Swarm Intelligence

This paper analyses aspects about the recommendation process in distributed information systems. It extracts similarities and differences between recommendations in e- stores and the recommendations applied to an e-learning environment. It also explains the phenomena of self-organization and cooperative emergence in complex systems coupled with bio-inspired algorithms to improve knowledge discovery and association rules. Finally, the present recommendation is applied to e-learning by proposing recommendation by emergence in a Multi-Agent System architecture.

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